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Evolving Strategy (600)

Full Battle! Paul VS Ash!

The battle between Ash & Paul continues. With Paul sending out his newly evolved Magmortar against Pikachu, the battle is heating up. Feeling he has to win, Ash endeavours to defeat Paul and sends out Chimchar. However, will Chimchar be able to defeat the Pokémon of his former master?

I'm just going to copy and paste what I thought of the episode from another thread. Slightly edited for content.

And alas other trainers of course don't get to use Deus Ex Machina, as that only applies to the protagonists. So whatever.
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I am not pleased with this battle, personally I think it's a bunch of bull, but no one would agree with me.

6-2 is just bull, even with Paul's reserves, Ursaring was caught at the start it was just ridiculous that it couldn't be knocked out. I mean dear god how many hits did it take before going down.

And Electabuzz, oh so what Dig isn't a ground type move, therefore super effective. The flame body and the thunderbolt/Electric Attack paralysis was way too convenient for Paul. I mean why don't they make more use of it, why just randomly put it in just because it could happen that way.

And even after Blaze, Monferno couldn't knock out Electabuzz.

Writers if you're going to portray someone as powerful, you better do it from the beginning, none of this pulling crap out of your hat just because its convenient for you.
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And again of course it doesn't matter what I say, because nothing would come of it from complaining.
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If I have to find anything good about this battle, it's the animation and Monferno vs Electabuzz (before Monferno lost). I was actually pretty pleased with the battle, until Monferno had to go and get knocked out.

Really surprised by how much of a vital member Yogi's become to the Team. When he was first caught it seemed all but certain that he'd be dumped even before Paul's next appearance but he's sticking around for the long run for a previous inexplicable reason. Now and now we know why.

but Light Screen too which carries on to the next pokemon as well.

That's how Light Screen works. It protects the Team for a few turns (minutes), not just the user. Same with Barrier.

Oh my god! Light Screen does not protect the user or the rest of their team! It only raises defense!

Anyway, it sucks how Gliscor went down. Gliscor could have beaten Torterra if it wasn't such a ditz. That Ursaring was as bad of a terrorist as Abomasnow. Of course his best friend (sarcasticly), Chimchar could take him down. I just can't believe Monferno couldn't beat Electabuzz...

Even though ash lost, he put up a great fight even when the odds were against him and for that he deserves some props. the episode was great, especially the part where monferno evolved and did that mach punch towards paul. I know ash team is improving but this episode just prove what a long way they still have to go. It'd be interesting to see how they develop his team and dawns in the limited amount of episodes we have left.

I hated how Flame Body and Paralysis activated to Paul's convinience though. That's just way too bias in favour of Paul. Well, at least Dawn and the idoits shutted up most of the time.

Even Pikachu's static worked in favor of Paul (Ursaring's Guts). This was so stacked against Ash it wasn't funny. It's as if the writers couldn't come up with a real way for Ursaring/Magmortar (added because it limited Pikachu more than normal)/Electabuzz to beat Ash's Pokemon without using abilities/statuses.

And even still this battle was a bunch of bull also because now they're focusing on abilities/statuses. The last time Pikachu's static worked (as far as I know) was Roark. The last time Chimchar activated Blaze was before Crasher Wake. I wish they were consistent rather than some plot point so the match is favorable to one person over the other.

Because I could've see Magmortar/Ursaring/Electabuzz losing quite simply without some cheapness involved. Well okay the exception being Magmortar (the match with it was weird) but without Ursaring's Guts, Pikachu's Burn, Pikachu could've won that match easily. And if Monferno wasn't affected by paralysis, Monferno would've beaten Electabuzz.

It is true. Poor Ash, after putting a great fight. His Monferno got badly beaten. Now Ash lost three times to Paul. But this better be the last time. When Ash and Pikachu next him in the Sinnoh League, make sure Paul loses.

I am here to help others to solve their problem,and I'm also the big fan of Kissshipping.

I think we all won in this XD, independent of the result atleast for me this was one of the best if not the best battle in Pokemon anime history(animation was great) i was hoping that Monferno was going to win against Electabuzz atleast but still it was a good battle and omg URSARING IS THE SHIET i loved the beatdown he gave on Ash Pokemons and i loved how Buizel gave him a good beating also, I just wanted to see alittle more from Magmortar but aside that i loved the episode this episode was Epic and it wasnt cheap at all in my opinion.

And like the manga adpation said Ash lost badly theres no such thing as almost loosing badly lol , either you loose badly or you dont there no almost in there kakaka .

I think we all won in this XD, independent of the result atleast for me this was one of the best if not the best battle in Pokemon anime history(animation was great) i was hoping that Monferno was going to win against Electabuzz atleast but still it was a good battle and omg URSARING IS THE SHIET i loved the beatdown he gave on Ash Pokemons and i loved how Buizel gave him a good beating also, I just wanted to see alittle more from Magmortar but aside that i loved the episode this episode was Epic and it wasnt cheap at all in my opinion.

And like the manga adpation said Ash lost badly theres no such thing as almost loosing badly lol , either you loose badly or you dont there no almost in there kakaka .

I'm sorry that it has to end like this. But I hope that Ash doesn't become mean to pokemon (sinking to Paul's level). After that battle he fought. I'm started to worry what would happen to him.

Last edited by Shego; 18th June 2009 at 3:27 PM.

I am here to help others to solve their problem,and I'm also the big fan of Kissshipping.

Bit sad that Ash lost but from what I've heard, it was a great battle. Can't wait to watch it tonight, and we finally have Monferno!

One thing that bugs me though,

Ash could beat Brandon. Paul couldn't beat Brandon. Therefore, wouldn't it seem that Ash should be able to beat Paul or at least lose by a far smaller margin? It just seems unrealistic to me. Can't the writers remember things like that?

what does Paul say after the battle and did chimchar/ monferno just beat ursaing was the battle with electabuzz at least drawn out. I see brick break as a water pulse type of move that ash uses out of no where and then explains he was training inferape. Pikachu is going to learn a new move. Grotle is going to evolve and so is buizel. If he got smashed that badly and did gliscor's power decrease again

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